A 16th century German 'oath skull' (a human skull on which defendants swore their oath in Vehmic courts) engraved with the 'magical' Roman 'Sator square', mysterious palindromic word-squares found across the Roman world, comprising the words SATOR, AREPO, TENET, OPERA, ROTAS [1185x913]
A head of a man made of lumachella orientale marble filled with fossilised shells. The main ancient quarries for lumachella orientale are located near Thuburbo Majus in modern day Tunisia. Greek or Roman, late Hellenistic or early Imperial, 1st century BCE-1st century CE [2583x3672]